Abstract
Alongside the terrain of the physical landscape and the settled localities in which we live is a parallel geography of technologies of transportation, information and communication. This geography, and its successive historical developments, have in turn shaped experiences of both place and displacement, along with corresponding experiences of space and time. Over the last few decades, the contours of this geography have continued to expand, the technologies embodying it defined by an ever increasing intensity, acceleration and velocity. The growth of global information networks, the wide-spread adoption of personal computers and their related networks of everyday communication, along with the pervasive reach of digital technologies in general, have led to further spatial and temporal dislocations and to significant realignments of social life and social space. Images and rhetoric now abound of a world integrated through large-scale media institutions, of a new communications geography defined by media flows and vectors, and of distance ‘annihilated’ once and for all by high-speed transportation technologies and the instantaneous delivery of information.
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